Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Affordable gourmet food

Our expert knows where you can enjoy affordable, Michelin-starred food.

let’s do lunch!
The rule for keeping down the costs is not to go in the evening. A three-course meal at the Auguste in Paris only costs 37 euros at lunchtime, as opposed to 154 euros for dinner and wine.

Two courses, three stars
You’ll have to pay a little more at Jean Georges in New York: 58 dollars for a two-course lunch. But it’s still a good investment, as the famous gourmet restaurant boasts three Michelin stars.

As cheap as fast food
Lunch at Shinjuku Kappo Nakajima in Tokyo starts at 800 yen (roughly 6 euros). So it’s no wonder that the queues for this Michelin-­starred eatery are always long. On the menu: fish, miso soup, rice and green tea.

Use your illusion

The ravages of time? A portal to another dimension? No – just the incredible work of street artist 1010, who is famed for his clever optical illusions on buildings that make flat surfaces look like cavernous holes.

A-tisket, a-tasket …

Until they were banned in the 19th century, monks from the Buddhist Fuke sect wandered the streets of Japan playing gentle melodies on flutes and begging for alms. The sect died out 150 years ago, but their traditions are recreated for special occasions.

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s novel about a man-made creature was published in 1818 and spawned countless stage and film adaptations. Renowned Gothic scholar Sir Christopher Frayling documents the evolution of this phenomenon in his new book.